Earlier this year, Prime Video greenlit an eight-episode series adaptation of Sex Criminals, the comic series by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. The adaptation comes from the intriguing showrunning trio of Kumail Nanjiani (Little America), Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), and Tze Chun (Gotham). And they’ve been wasting no time getting this series up and running. In the past week, they’ve announced their stars and the director of the first two episodes.
But first, the important bit: Sex Criminals is about people who stop time when they have sex. Then they do crimes. (As one does.) Prime’s logline says simply, “In Sex Criminals, Suze is a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night, she meets Jon…who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping couple would do: they rob banks.”
Suze and Jon will be played by Imogen Poots and John Reynolds. (Nanjiani will also appear in the series, according to Deadline.) Poots’ two decades of work includes roles in 28 Days Later, Green Room, Roadies, and Outer Range, while Reynolds starred in the Four Weddings and a Funeral miniseries; Search Party; and—most importantly for some of us here at Reactor—the underseen Save Yourselves! (pictured above). He has also been on Stranger Things and Yellowjackets.
This excellent cast will be guided, for its first two episodes, by Nia DaCosta, who at this point should need very little introduction. Most recently, she directed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a movie about which I heard many complimentary and upsetting things, and Prime’s Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson (and also featuring Imogen Poots). She also directed both The Marvels and episodes of Ms. Marvel.
With cast and director set, it shouldn’t be too terribly long before this series arrives. Just don’t confuse it with Prime’s other upcoming comic-adaptation series, Criminal.
